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Life of Father Hecker

CHAPTER X
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So I am willing to be thought.

Each of us has an individual character to act out, _under the inspiration of God,_ and this is the highest and noblest we can do.

We are forms differing from one another, and if we are acting under the inspirations of the Highest, we are doing our uttermost; more the angels do not.

What tends to hinder us from realizing the ideal which our vision sees must be denied, be it self, wealth, opinion, or death." "The Heart says, 'Be all that you can.' The Intellect says, 'When you are all that you can be--what then ?'" "Infinite love is the basis of the smallest act of love, and when we love with our whole being, we are in and one with God." "To love is to lose one's self and gain God.

To be all in love is to be one with God." "When the Spirit begets us, we are no more; the Spirit is, and there is nothing else." "There is much debauchery in speaking wilfully.
"Every act of self is sin, is a lie.
"The Spirit will lead you into solitude and silence if it has something to teach you.
"You must be born again to know the truth.


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